Richard Appel

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Richard James Appel (born May 21, 1963) is an American writer, producer, and former prosecutor.

He has worked as both an Executive Producer and co-showrunner of Family Guy on Fox since 2012.

He enrolled Harvard University and wrote for the Harvard Lampoon. Appel became a solicitor following his mother's example.

He started out as a law clerk for Judge John M. Walker Jr. before becoming a federal prosecutor, serving as an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York for three years.

When he was hired for The Simpsons in 1994, he began writing seven episodes of the film, including "Mother Simpson."

He went on to become a showrunner and executive producer of King of the Hill before launching the sitcom A.U.S.A.

He appeared on The Bernie Mac Show, Family Guy, and American Dad! The Cleveland Show was co-creating before co-creating The Cleveland Show.

Mona Simpson, a writer, had him married.

Personal life

Mona Simpson, Apple's sister, married him in 1993. They have two children. Appel and Simpson have since divorced.

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Early life and law career

Richard James Appel was born in New York City on May 21, 1963 and raised in Wilmette, Illinois, to Nina (née Schick) and Alfred Appel. He comes from a Jewish family.

His mother, a lawyer and dean of Loyola University Chicago's law school from 1983 to 2004, where she now teaches Tort Law and Vladimir Nabokov. Karen Oshman, Appel's sister, is a witness.

Appel lived in California while his parents worked at Stanford University before the family moved to Wilmette, Illinois, where Appel attended North Shore Country Day School. While there, he co-wrote and co-edited his senior yearbook with writer and poet Philip Brooks. He read for the Harvard Lampoon after leaving NSCDS and worked for the Harvard Lampoon, with Conan O'Brien and Greg Daniels, both of whom were competing to give the fun graduation address, the Ivy Oration. "Everyone expected it to be Conan automatically," Tad Friend said, "but Rich's talk was amusing and self-deprecating in a way that was both silly and profound." After graduating in 1985 with a degree in history and literature, Appel attended Harvard Law School rather than leaping into comedy because the prospect of following his mother and grandfathers into the legal profession "appealed" to him.

He spent two years as a law clerk for Judge John M. Walker, Jr. of the Southern District of New York, working on the trials of individuals like Michael Milken and Leona Helmsley. Appel served as an assistant U.S. attorney for three years beginning in 1990. Appel "was an excellent advocate," said fellow prosecutor Geoffrey Berman. He was up on his feet, articulately, with a sense of the legislation that was more logical and intuitive than based on books.

Despite being a security consultant, the appellant still had dreams of becoming a comedian, but only in 1993, after his wife became pregnant, was Appel "reminded" that this was [his] life and [he] could shape it." He had retained an agent, had written and submitted two spec-scripts, and had migrated to California three months later.

Writing career

Appel recalled: "One reason I caught up to my colleagues was that I knew I'd been on the Lampoon even before I started to write, even 8 or ten years ago." Appel started working as a writer and producer at The Simpsons in 1994, first on a ten-week contract. He produced seven episodes, many using "joke sequences, a narrative approach to parody that moves away from the quick laugh in favour of something that progresses with time."

Appel found that work on The Simpsons was a learning curve because it was a "very difficult show to write for." "Mother Simpson" was his first episode on season seven. Appel was desperately trying to find a story idea to tell when he realized he had to reach out and do something about Homer's mother, who had only been reported once. Mona Simpson was named after his wife, but he referred to her as Mona Simpson after she was born. Many of the writers were unable to believe that an episode about Homer's mother was not published at the time. Several little mysteries were solved by the writers, such as where Lisa's intelligence came from. He wrote "Bart on the Road" for season seven, in which he used the plot devices of "go to work with your parents day" and Bart's getting a driving license, and spoke about Lionel Hutz; the two segments were also cut;

Appel produced two episodes from season eight's "Bart After Dark" and "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson," as well as season nine's "The Two Mrs Nahapeema" and season 10's "When You Dish Upon A Star."

Appel was hired by Daniels in 1997 as executive producer and showrunner on King of the Hill, in charge of the show's scripting process and coordinating all aspects of the production. "It was vital that Rich was a good writer who could deal with people and who could assist in the company's smooth running." However, it was also significant that he was someone I could trust and shared a similar sense of taste and values." He lived until 2001. Appel received three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on The Simpsons and King of the Hill.

Appel created A.U.S.A., a short-lived series that he based on his own experience as an assistant U.S. attorney, which aired in 2003. He created it in 2001 and NBC ordered 13 episodes the following year; the show's original pilot used a single-camera setup, but NBC executives felt it would have more success as a multi-camera setup, so it was re-shot.

Appel wrote and appeared as a producer on The Bernie Mac Show and Kitchen Confidential, and in the 2004 film I Heart Huckabees, Appel continued to write and produce on The Bernie Mac Show and Kitchen Confidential, and he appeared as Josh in the 2004 film I Heart Huckabees. In 2006, he produced My Ex Life, a pilot about two divorcing couples for CBS.

The show was not picked up

He served as both a co-executive producer on Family Guy and an executive producer on American Dad in 2008. The database was available from 2008 to 2009. "Family Gay," Appel wrote the Family Guy's seventh season episode "Family Gay."

The Family Guy spin-off The Cleveland Show was co-created by Appel along with Mike Henry and Seth MacFarlane. The Cleveland Show opened in 2007 and premiered on September 27, 2009. With limited involvement from MacFarlane, He and Henry serve as the show's executive producers. The show was conceived by Henry and Appel as "more of a family show, a sweeter display" than Family Guy.

Beginning with the sixteenth season, Appel and Alec Sulkin will debut Family Guy.

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